Trade (Apocalypse)
Buying And Selling
Money is the lubrication that makes the cogs move in Mega-Primus.
Funds
Mega-Primus's corporate prosperity depends on providing a commodity or a service. Everything costs someone something. Buildings, Weapons, Ammunition, Armor, Vehicles, Fuel, Devices, Repairs, ...even Relationships!
Markets
Everything needed by X-Com against the Alien menace is available if you have the money.
An under-eqipped X-Com squad of agents battling Aliens with advanced and exotic weaponry is dangerous, if not futile, since losses may be very high unless the appropriate (best) equipment is used.
Products available on the market may be purchased if they are in-stock and only if the manufacturer is not hostile to X-Com.
The Buy/Sell button is the main screen for purchase of vehicles, agent equipment, airbourne craft items, and road-based vehicle items.
Hiring more agents or technical personel is possible via the Hire/Fire Staff button.
Supply & Demand
The prices of every item within the Buy/Sell screen is subject to availability.
- Buy or Sell price only changes at the start of a new week.
- Generalised prices of all items have an upper, and lower, limit.
- Items for purchase have a limit to the total market quantity available, if they are not sold.
- Price will decrease for an item which it not being purchased once maximum total market quantity has been reached.
- An item which is always purchased, and with the market depleted of stock, will force the price to rise quickly.
- There is no limit to how much of an item may be purchased or sold * in the marketplace.
- Excessive flooding of the market with bulk amounts of any item will decrease the selling price quickly.
- Vehicles which are damaged will be accepted, but at reduced price (price depending on current vehicle Constitution).
* the internal game limit is 65535 items, which in normal gameplay is irrelevant.
Future Availability
Items which are more advanced will be stocked for purchase by X-Com in the coming weeks. Some standard (but advanced) items may also be acquired early if an X-Com base is raided by a heavily armed hostile (a Base Defense mission was successful and advanced items were recovered).
Items: Week Two
- Marsec Armor
- Megapol Plasma Gun
- Marsec Heavy Launcher
- Marsec Proximity Mine
- Hawk Air Warrior
- Plasma Multi-System
- Missile Evasion Matrix
Items: Week Three
Hire and Fire
- Agents and technical personel appear in their relevant section in random quantities every new day, at midnight.
- Androids and Hybrids appear only if X-Com is Neutral, or better.
Note: Mutant Alliance and S.E.L.F. may not allow new hires in a new game.
Chop Shop
An underhanded money making tactic.